Early Kirkland / Matthew W. McCauley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCauley, Matthew William, author.

Series:

Images of America.

Images of America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buildings.

Kirkland (Wash.)--History--Pictorial works.

Kirkland (Wash.).

Kirkland (Wash.)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.

Kirkland (Wash.)--Buildings, structures, etc--Pictorial works.

Washington (State)--Kirkland.

Genre:

photobooks.

illustrated books.

Photobooks.

Illustrated works.

History.

Pictorial works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, [2017]

Summary:

"Kirkland is a city of over 88,000 today, but when the US government opened the eastern shore of Lake Washington for homesteading in 1870, it was an unforgiving, mostly unpopulated primeval forest of giant old-growth conifers and tangles of undergrowth. Over the next two decades, hardscrabble pioneers gradually braved the wilds to stake and prove up 80- and 160-acre land claims. In 1887, a consortium of speculators, developers, and dreamers headed by a dynamic English steel industrialist sought to transform the scattered wilderness ranches into a steel manufacturing center, the "Pittsburgh of the West." A boomtown was born, but within a few years, the steel scheme imploded, leaving in its ruins a few resilient families who undertook the arduous, decades-long struggle to forge a town. Early Kirkland provides a new look into Kirkland's past, from its beginning to 1940."--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

1. Pioneers

2. Boomtown!

3. After the bust

4. Of steamboats, ferries, and landings

5. Between the wars.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781439663271

1439663270